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Mother Nature weighs on Festival of Lights attendance
EAST PEORIA, Ill. — With less than a week to go for the Festival of Lights Winter Wonderland, East Peoria’s tourism director says this year’s event didn’t draw as many people. ...
Dec 28, 2022
TSX futures edge higher as investors eye China reopening
(Reuters) - Futures for Canada's main stock index edged up on Wednesday as investors returned from a long holiday weekend to global optimism over China moving towards reopening its economy. Futures on...
Dec 28, 2022
Human hair recycled in Belgium to protect the environment
By Jakob Van Calster BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Coiffeurs across Belgium are sweeping up and bagging hair clipped from their customers, and then handing it over to an NGO that recycles it to protect the env...
Dec 28, 2022
Futures edge higher as investors assess China reopening
(Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures edged higher on Wednesday as investors weighed the unwinding of pandemic restrictions by China against surging COVID cases in the world's second largest economy. B...
Dec 28, 2022
Agreement over IKEA’s Russia sale could be reached in days, says Moscow
MOSCOW (Reuters) - An agreement over the sale of IKEA's factories in Russia could be reached by the end of this year, Russia's industry minister said on Wednesday, as the Swedish furniture giant seeks...
Dec 28, 2022
Another militia member in Michigan governor kidnapping plot faces sentencing
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - Another right-wing militia member convicted in the plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer faces several years in prison when he is sentenced on Wednesday in a ...
Dec 28, 2022
Chipmaker Infineon ready to spend billions on acquisitions – CEO
MUNICH (Reuters) -Infineon is ready to spend several billion euros on the right takeover target as it searches for acquisitions to boost growth, Chief Executive Jochen Hanebeck said in an interview pu...
Dec 28, 2022
UK’s Argo Blockchain shares soar on deals to avoid bankruptcy
By Sinchita Mitra and Anchal Rana (Reuters) -Crypto miner Argo Blockchain said on Wednesday it will sell its mining facility Helios for $65 million and refinance a new asset-backed loan as it seeks to...
Dec 28, 2022
China to import 45 foreign video games, grants multiple licences to Tencent
By Josh Ye BEIJING (Reuters) -China's video games regulator granted on Wednesday publishing licences to 45 foreign games for release in the countryfurther lifting rigid curbs that have hammered the in...
Dec 28, 2022
Slipping over Mexico border, migrants get the jump on U.S. court ruling
By Jose Luis Gonzalez and Daina Beth Solomon CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Even before the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday opted to keep in place a measure aimed at deterring illegal border crossing...
Dec 28, 2022
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